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Watco uses Blue Yonder Dynamic Price Discovery and Transportation Modeling for real-time freight operations
Watco needed to serve customers with real-time freight rate availability and guaranteed capacity while optimizing its freight network for cost, efficiency, and sustainability.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Customer freight rate request
Customers request freight rates and Watco is ready to serve in real-time every minute of the day.
Tools used
Blue YonderBlue Yonder Dynamic Price DiscoveryBlue Yonder Transportation Modeling
Outcome
Watco improved productivity significantly, processing over 1500 rate requests a month with increased rate accuracy, responding to market volatility instantly, and reducing carbon emissions and fuel burned by shortening truck routes.
Results
Time savedover 1500
Volumeincreased rate accuracy
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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